Mendy vs Vinicius vs Vazquez. Can't figure out who was the least shit between them.
Team is fine considering you can't compete with the Prem spending 200 in one window every year.
Missing particular types of player i.e. proper version of Hazard, Odegaard opening spaces and a mobile striker to increase the margin of error. Defense is quality albeit dependent on Ramos and will take some time, maybe few months, maybe a year, to get over departure of Ramos once it does happen.
We've balanced out lack of threat in attack by putting in best defensive season in 40 years. Now it's time to take the next step and improve upfront. But Zidane doesn't like 2 strikers and has too many wingers. So we'll either improve or pay for it.
Mendy, easily, usually quite the solid player.
R of 16, R of 16, and likely group stages is a disastrous decline no matter how you slice it.
Inter to the rescue.
It infuriates me that the only time they have been good in the CL in the last 15 some years, it just so happened to stop us from doing a CL 3 peat.
Fuck them.
That Real team is not fine and a bit much to complain about spending when spent over 250m last summer on players that barely play and the one that does in Mendy have argued about before but I think he is poor going forward.
It is not fine if have another early CL exit.